The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1887-06-16
Temperance,

hibitionists were waylaid and assassinated.
In Mississippi recently Mr.. Cambria,
editor of strong temperance paper, was
deliberately shot and killed 10y Col. Ham
ilton. Now Texas comes in for her share
of intolerance and outrage, as the follow
ing dispatch dated at San Antonio, June
10, tells "non. Bryan Callaghan, mayor
of this city =; Phil SharidaD, chief of po-
lice; Alderman Degner; eX-Alderman
Lockwood; Fred. Herf. jr., cashier Of the
San Antonio National Bank, and four 9TH
er welI-known citizens were arrested to-
day on warrants sworn out before the
United States commissioner by Judge w.
Ii. Booker, leading prohibiticnist. charg-
ing the defendants with disturbing and
breaking up prohibition meeting held last
Tuesday night on a lot owned by the FED
eral government. The city council had
previously refused permission to hold the
meeting on the public plaza. During the
progress of the meeting anti prohibition
lists gathered i'll large numbers. rotten-egged
the speakers, and broke up the meeting.
The af1idaviIs embrace three counts-con-
spiracy. aggravated assault and preventing
freedom OF speech. The court sustained
the first count. and reserved its opinion
on the other two. The defendants were
/ released on their recogniZance.
OF course. all the anti-prohibition peo-
pie should not be held responsible for this
violence, but it indicates the spirit that
controls with many of those prominent in
their support of the license system.
But there is an awaken ing all over the
country on this subject. Recently an anti
saloon meeting was held in New York, at
which Judge Noah Davis presided, and was
addressed by the presiding officer, Hon {.
VIM. Window. eX-Secretary of the Treas
ury and X-United States Senator from
Minnesota. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, re-
cent Republican candidate for Mayor of
New York, Hon. Alfred Griffin and 9TH
ers. A large number of prominent Repub-
licaES were on the stand, giving their coun-
tenance TO the movement, and letters were
read in sympathy with the object of the
meeting from Senator Edmunds, of Yer
mont, Senator " ilsOn, of Iowa, Senator
Blair, of New Hampshire, Senator Hoar,
of Massachusetts, Senator Morrill,, of Yer
mont, ex-Gov. Long, of Massachusetts,
Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge, of Boston, Gov,
Martin. of Kansas, and other leading Re-
pubicans of the country. Hon. w. E..
Chandler, the new United States Senator
from New Hampshire, in addressing the
Republican members of the Legislature Of
} that State SAID. the 'fRepublicap party must
favor the growing cause of temperance and
defeat the free rum policy of the Demo
/ cratic party Thus it Will be seen that there
is wide spread feeling extending from Tex
as to Maine on the subject of temperance.
; and that political bodies are moving in
the matter preparatory to shaping policy
for 1883. Of course the local agitation Of
the temperance question is education
, al in its effects. yet it is enough to devel-
OPP the spirit which will have to be met
when the issue is brought to the atten-
ton Of the cou ntry on a broader theatre
1t will not Go, therefore, to pass by unno
f., ticed, the extremes that are resorted to
for the purpose OF arresting the conceded
q progress OF the temperance cause. Let
> the facts we have given be thought ovel
and remembered. And let it be noted, too
that in Washington city, New York, St
Louis, and other leading cities of the
> country, the traffic in liquor has been ar
, rested, and the Sunday law rigidly en-
, forced. a few years ago this could moi
, have been done. Public sentiment in be-
half of temperance will soon be strong
enough to give effect to all laws restrict
ing the sale and use of intoxicating drinks
4 It is growing rapidly and crystal ang into
f apower that has TO be respected.
= No Republican in the country has as
= large following ameHg the Irish Ameri
:, cans as Hon. Jas. G. Blaine. No other Re
: publican can command as large a vote from
= The laboring classes. No other Republican
can so certainly carry the Pacific States
No other Republican can so surely gel
the electoral votes of the entire Northwes
tern and New England States. No other
= Republican can command as large 2 nopu-
lar vote in New York, New Jersey anf
= Connecticut, and no other Republican ex
= cept Hon. II. W. Blair. Can poll as large a
= vote in the Southern States. AS to the
Irish Americans the following statement
!, is Of Importance. 1t is only Q straw which
shows the direction of the wind, and {
pointer to guiae the Republican party il
;, n,aki ing its selection in 1855. The Repub
6 Lean Club adopted report on the oth
with but one dissenting vote, which sets
+ forth that "a conference with the leader:
of the Irish Americans who VOTED fol
Blaine in 1854 dlscloses that they will vote
y for him and prefer his nQmi nation to thai
Of any other man." 4 member moved tt
| strike out the attempttO boom Mr. Blaine
g He said he voted for Mr.. Blaine anf
q you'd vote for him again, but he deplOred
any DIRECT or indirect Endorsement of can
n didate in advance of the eonyentiOn's ac
n ton. 1t vas explained that the repor
- simply stated facts and that the name OF
y Foraker and Sherman were suggested tt
E the Irish leaders. They, however, sale
e they empiiat ieai,y pfetefTes. Mr., Elaine a
f. the only man who had excited tie disap
| prevail of their English enemies. The,
, did not object TO Forak and Sherman
" but they did prefer Blaine.
II OF course Senator Sherman or Gov
Il Foraker would receive the united suppor
r Of those of the Republican party who ad
,. here To the organization B4t there
J. are many independent Republicans wh(
e reserve The right to vote to please them
G selves. and are Influenced 10y the lead
d er chosen. Blaines personal popularit,
V surpasses largely that Of any other Re
It publican, and for this. among other very
Y strong reasons, he ought to be the nomi
d nee IN 1889.
p In 1854 the Democratic party sighed f91
u return of Jeffersonian simplicity at The
= White House. They succeeded in getting
y their modern apostle of that lost art int
- the Executive Chair. And since thai
f time there has been more glare and pre-
# tense, more disgusting Gunkeyism snt